Michel Deville (13 April 1931 – 16 February 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors.
He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style.
[citation needed] One of Deville's comedies, La Lectrice (The Reader) was probably his biggest success with international audiences.
[2] A clip from his 1968 film Benjamin is included in Robert Bresson's Une Femme Douce (1969).